Merlins Rest Pub

Tonight: Samhain Celebration (a.k.a., Halloween)

Join us tonight for a Samhain Celebration! Samhain is the Celtic New Year. And then there’s that thing we all call Halloween. It’s the Celtic New Year, and it’s a fine reason to celebrate.
We’re rolling it together with our usual Friday night revelry: Kilt Night!
A costume contest will be held and [...]

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Tonight: Dino and the Dinosaurs
Time: 9:00 pm
We finish up our month’s Thursdays with an extra dose of the blues: Dino & the Dinosaurs will be in the pub tonight playing some of the finest tunes in the Cities. Great times are to be had when they are playing and Dino is a grand man. Worth [...]

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Word has come to us today that the mother of our good friend Bill Watkins has passed away.
Many of you know Bill’s mother through the anecdotes of her you’ll find in his three books: A Celtic Childhood,  Scotland Is Not for the Squeamish, and The Once and Future Celt.
She was a grand soul and will [...]

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Tonight: Wednesday Pub Quiz with Bill Watkins
Time: 7:30 pm
I’m thinking now of that commercial during which a man clicks the mouse at his computer and a pop-up emerges to tell him he’s reached the end of the internet and he should go back. We’ve arrived at a similar spot here, it seems, as we may [...]

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Tonight: the Folk Jam
Time: 7:30 pm
It’s Tuesday and the instruments are out! Join a host of friends up here as they jam without amps or mics. It’s a little thing we like to call the Folk Jam.
The line-up changes week to week, but you can usually find the likes of Roadie, Bill Watkins, Chas and [...]

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